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About Liverpool Sound Collage
Product Description Created by request as the soundtrack for 'About Collage', Peter Blake's exhibition now running at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool. The piece was made in collaboration with Super Furry Animals and Youth. Contains Beatles out-takes from recordings made between 1965-69 with John, Ringo and George.With the voice of John talking to Paul after a take and thevoice of the woman from McCartney's local fish & chip shopserving Paul his F&C! EMD has no 2000 release scheduled for this title! 2000 release. Digipak. Amazon.com Paul McCartney's music has long been tainted by fallacious revisionism. Supposedly the Beatles' safe sentimentalist soft-pop underbelly, he's usually been portrayed as the antiseptic flip-side to John Lennon's avant-garde bad boy. It's good to remember that Paul penned "Helter Skelter," John "Julia," and that it was McCartney who was exploring the London avant-garde scene (and composing a "Revolution 9"-like sound collage for a theater project in '67) long before Lennon had even heard of Yoko Ono. Long dormant, that sensibility resurfaced in the '90s as McCartney's ambient alter-ego, the Fireman, and again in this soundtrack to artist/ Sgt. Pepper cover designer Peter Blake's On Collage exhibition at Liverpool's Tate Gallery. Utilizing a theme of local Liverpool voices, Paul mixes the familiar (snatches of Beatles' spoken-word and musical outtakes) with the obscure (including field recordings of Liverpool art students and his favorite local chips lady), adds a dash of Liverpool Oratorio and some recent Cavern Club sound checks, and (with the help of Super Furry Animals keyboardist Cian Ciaran and producer/Fireman collaborator Youth) concocts five leisurely, dense aural landscapes. Though hardly the usual fodder of pop criticism, the tracks here often rise above good-natured studio wankery, especially the spare dub mix "Free Now." It's also a track that underscores the ghetto mentality of much modern pop. Once upon a time, McCartney and others felt free to infuse the mainstream with their experimentalism rather than constrain it to side projects. Whatever, this is hardly "safe" stuff. --Jerry McCulley
